John Maus – July 2011…. Feature in the Wire and Album Review in The Stool Pigeon (posted by Harry)

John Maus – We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

“Perhaps appropriately, Maus regards his latest work with a degree of ambivalence. ‘I was hoping this record would be some kind of transition into a middle period, you know, some kind of “[symphony] number three”. I had Beethoven’s Eroica in mind, in my own pathetic, caricatural way. But no, it ended up being more of a clarification or a consummation of what I’ve been working on for the last two albums.’ ”